Revolutionary Changes in Understanding Man and Society: Scopes and Limits (Theory and Decision Library A:)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 1899
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780792336273
Subjects: Social & political philosophy; Social sciences; Philosophy Of Anthropology; Philosophy Of Social Science; Sociology; Philosophy; Artificial Intelligence - General; General; Philosophy / General; Anthropology
First sentence: Over the last decades, social philosophers, economists, sociologists, utility and game theorists, biologists, mathematicians, moral philosophers and philosophers have created totally new concepts and methods of understanding the function and role of humans in their modern societies.
Description: This book presents original contributions which deal with the radical changes in today's sciences during the last twenty years. After the breathtaking unification of physical theories to the grand unification theory, new theories of evolution began to unify not only all social sciences, but also the natural with the social sciences. The book provides a fascinating analysis of these new trends which lead into the twenty-first century and a deep going critique of the received view.

Sixteen papers have been assembled, two of them written by nobelists. The contributors include economists, psychologists, physicists, sociologists, utility and decision theorists, philosophers of science, and researchers in artificial intelligence. Besides giving an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the ongoing changes in today's sciences, each writer tries to make his/her contribution comprehensible to a wider audience.